innovate in ways that help make IoT products and ser-vices more affordable, more sustainable and more accessi-ble to all citizens wanting them. Pushing that idea fur-ther, I believe that the biggest challenge in the upcoming years will be to implement responsible research and inno-vation, i.e. a transparent, inter-active process by which socie-tal actors and innovators be-come mutually responsive to each other with a view on the ethical acceptability, sustaina-bility and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products in order to allow a proper em-bedding of scientific and tech-nological advances in our society. The IERC will need to explore how responsible research and innovation can be ensured in a world where trillions of devices and inani-mate objects exchange data without, basically, human intervention through a net-work. Among the many challenges that the IERC will have to tackle in the next few months I would like to mention just three that concern scalability, power and robots, respective-ly: i) how to improve efficien-cy and increase people’s qual-ity of life by exploiting data gathered from a globe-spanning sensor network of heterogeneous elements capa-ble of monitoring objects as macroscopic as climate

As I’m moving at the end of this month to a new role in the European Commission’s Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) Directorate-General, it is worth pausing to dwell on what happened in the Internet of Things European Research Cluster (IERC) over the last five years. There are so many people who have worked hard over the course of many years to en-sure success of this ambitious and exciting cluster. From January 2007 to February 2008, Gerd Wolfram, Manag-ing Director of METRO SYS-TEMS GmbH, the METRO GROUP IT service provider, then from February 2008 to March 2010 Patrick Guille-min, responsible within the ETSI Secretariat for the devel-opment, co-ordination and management of new standard-isation initiatives, and since March 2010 Ovidiu Ver-mesan, Chief Scientist at SIN-TEF Information and Commu-nication Technology, have been our successive visionary leaders, all people of high principle and clear thought, who have quietly, tirelessly, doggedly brought this cluster to life until it is so beautifully attractive and promising to-day. I took great pride in standing with them in all their efforts to be a just voice and powerful engine for the Euro-pean Internet of Things com-munity. I also would like to thank Peter Friess on the side of my Unit because he con-stantly delivered thorough work and creative and effec-tive solutions, thereby provid-ing forward thrust for the IERC. The IERC is exactly what we envisioned when we devel-oped it – a true private-public partnership that brings togeth-er scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders, government

decision makers, and repre-sentatives of the civil society towards a common vision, goal and strategy. Starting with 13 EU-funded RFID projects in 2007, the IERC has grown to include today 42 projects, including EU nation-al initiatives as well as fin-ished EU-funded projects whose partners expressed the wish to continue to contribute to the work of the cluster. During five years and a half the cluster has developed the vision, and in the European Commission we have fought for the resources to help the cluster put that vision into action to allow businesses to grow and to provide improved quality of life for European citizens. We must remember that what we are doing today is not just about growing our businesses or expanding opportunities for entrepreneurs, developers and creators. It’s not just about the quality of our health care, energy grids, manufacturing, people and goods transporta-tion, or urban environment. It’s about the hopes and dreams of our families and the next generations. That’s what the IERC is about today – empowering citizens with the skills and the enabling tech-nology to meet the needs and desires of their families. The awesome task before the IERC community then is not simply to innovate – and that is challenging enough – but to

Farewell and all the best to the IERC ! by Gérald Santucci

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2  July, 2012 IERC Newsletter

European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things

Inside this issue:

Foreword 1

DG INFSO re-organisation 2

IoT Week foreword 2

GAMBAS 3

IoT Comic Book 4

IoT Everything linked 5

IoT News & Events 5

V2 conference report 3

ELLIOT & PROBE-IT Demos 5

Points of interest: Farewell

DG INFSO DG CON-

NECT

IoT Week reports (part 1)

New project: GAMBAS

V2 Conference

IoT Comic Book

change and as microscopic as the life-cycle of product pack-aging, ii) how to power the IoT devices from sources like the sun, vibrations, mechani-cal energy, heat and others, iii) how robots acting as gate-ways, objects, and people can be brought together in the IoT and develop new interactions to turn digital decisions into physical actions. I will miss these debates, and others, but I’m sure that you will provide, in close collaboration with the international IoT community, the necessary level of commit-ment, enthusiasm and dedica-tion to realising the full poten-tial of the Internet of Things.

In the end, I’m proud of all you have done so well. There is still indeed so much to be done, especially in this chal-lenging time when Europe must gear up on research and innovation to ensure the suc-cess of its planned Horizon 2020. I’m a strong believer that innovation is the spark of human and social progress. I’ve appreciated the chance to work closely with so many experts like you in the cluster because you are at the fore-front of that innovation. I’m remembered of the inspiring words of the 19th century English poet Robert Browning

that our reach should exceed our grasp – and that should be our calling tomorrow. In line with this ambition, the IERC has set lofty objectives and it may not reach them all. But the success obtained so far shows that big goals can be achieved – especially with sustained leadership and drive at all levels. Thank you and congratula-tions to all of you for your inspiring work to provide a better future for millions of European citizens. Gérald Santucci, EC

longer be maintained and the Internet of Things aspects are now considered in several units. However, for ensuring proper coherence of actions the coordination of the IERC—Internet of Things European Research Cluster as well as the majority of IoT projects were transferred to the new unit E1 “Network Technologies”. It is intended to open up the IoT activities towards future network challenges, Cloud

integration, innovation as-pects, emphasis on important application area like Smart Cities and Industrial applica-tions (namely units E2, E3 and E4), and possibly technology aspects (unit A3). At the same time close cooperation will be ensured on policy support for the activities of unit H4 - ”Trust & Security” Peter Friess, EC

Short update on DG INFSO reorganization by Peter Friess

The Directorate General for Information Society and Me-dia has been renamed as of 1st July 2012 into DG CON-NECT—DG for Communica-tion Networks, Content and Technology; being in line with the European Commission’s intention to be fit for the next programme Horizon 2020. The activities on the Internet of Things gave been con-firmed but as a consequence of the transversality of the subject a central unit will no

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The Internet of Things is gain-ing momentum. After several years of discussion on novel concepts forming the IoT, the IoT is now at the heart of many European and interna-tional strategic innovation agendas and is seen as im-portant engine to drive eco-nomic growth as well as to provide solutions for address-ing societal needs. Expecta-tions are high from the public but as well from the scientific and technology community. The EU is funding IoT re-search projects since several years, now for the second time more than 20 of these EU projects joined forces and organized the second IoT week under the lead of the EU FP7 lighthouse project IoT-A

and the Internet of Things Research Cluster IERC. To-gether with the International IoT International Forum orga-nized by the IoT-I projects, the partners organized a week-long event of dedicated IoT sessions, presenting the out-come and current status of the research projects discussing future strategies and demon-strating first implementations of the IoT. More than 300 participants from throughout the world joined this unique event in the heart of Venice and -despite tropical tempera-tures- extensively discussed the implications and hurdles of the innovative concepts proposed in the IoT context. Seamlessly embedded in the IoT week, 4 sessions of the 4

working groups of the IoT International Forum on tech-nological, societal, ethical and business perspectives of IoT drew in a large crowd of par-ticipants for some intense discussions. Besides more than 30 sessions organized by the joint organizing projects, the participants could follow demonstrations of first imple-mentations of IoT concepts as an important part of the IoT week. Such demonstrations are particularly important in the light of explaining benefits of new technologies and inno-vations to the general public and bridging the knowledge gap between researchers and potential end-users. The next IoT Week in 2013 will take place 16th-20th of June 2013

IoT Week 2012 by Sebastian Lange

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in Helsinki, Finland and par-ticular focus on demonstration and implementation of IoT innovations will be made. For further information on the IOT week and IOT Forum events and/or to be involved in future

events please contact the fol-lowing people: IoT Week: Sebastian Lange, VDI/VDE-IT Email: sebastian.lange @vdivde-it.de

IoT International Forum: Bernard Hunt, University of Surrey Email: b.hunt @surrey.ac.uk

Internet of Things Initiative

The overall objective of the GAMBAS (Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services) project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the pri-vacy-preserving and automat-ed utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users. With the advent of powerful Internet-connected objects an increasing number of Europe-ans have constant access to information on the Internet. Nowadays, these connected objects are causing a drastic paradigm shift in the way people deal with information. Yet, the technical means to access information have only changed marginally. In most cases, information is accessed via the web which requires persons to memorize long URLs, click through web

pages or browse through search results. In contrast, ubiquitous compu-ting envisions services provid-ing distraction-free support. To realize this vision, services themselves must adapt to the user’s situation, behavior and intents at runtime. This requires services to gath-er and process the user's con-text. Internet-connected ob-jects provide a promising basis for determining user context in an automated man-ner on a large scale. The vi-sion of ubiquitous computing, however, extends beyond the boundaries of a single service as it envisions seamless sup-port for everyday tasks. To close the resulting gaps, the GAMBAS project has the following scientific and tech-nical objectives: 1. Development of a generic adaptive middleware for be-

havior-driven autonomous services that encompasses: a. Models and infrastructures to support the interoperable representation and scalable processing of context. b. Frameworks and methods to support the generic yet resource-efficient multi-modal recognition of context. c. Protocols and tools to de-rive, generalize, and enforce user-specific privacy-policies. d. Techniques and concepts to optimize the interaction with behavior-driven services. 2. Validation of the middle-ware and its components using lab tests and a prototype appli-cation in the public transporta-tion domain. Contact: Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón Email: pjmarron@uni-due.de Web: www.gambas-ict.eu

New project: GAMBAS by Pedro José Marron

For some years now we can recognise a world, an environ-ment, developing towards a synthesis of ‘atoms and bits’, i.e. a hybrid situation in which still remain a great many questions concerning imple-mentation, acceptation, priva-cy and trust. Only 16 years ago, in 1996, Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown wrote their article “THE COMING AGE OF CALM TECHNOLOGY” . One of the visionary state-ments was: “Tie them (i.e. , microprocessors, mp) to the

Internet, and now you have connected together millions of information sources with hun-dreds of information delivery systems in your house.” Next to that, at Council we state that ‘the Internet of Things is a vision’; we articu-late our goal: “ The purpose of Council is to forecast what will happen when smart ob-jects surround us in smart homes, offices, streets, and cities.” There is also the phrase used by K.S. Swamina-tahan in his recent article : ‘the internet of things is a

concept, not a single technolo-gy’. But, what exactly do we mean when we talk of a ‘smart home’, or a smart environ-ment? To what question is the IoT an answer here; is or should our home be smart? For decades the discussion has been focused on home-technology: e.g. ; the thinking refrigerator, the lights auto-matically turned on or off, the garage-door opening or clos-ing. These technologies, like Ambient Intelligence, origi-nated from a ‘comfort’ point

Report from V2 conference by Martin Pot

We must see all objects, including the ‘I’ and individual building components, as actors, as active players in a parametric world”

Arch./prof. Kas Oosterhuis in ‘Towards a New Kind of Building’

of view; they automate former manual actions. But with the increase of available and gen-erated data, the connectivity of objects, the perforation of our homes by a wide variety of networks and services we cannot maintain the current dichotomy between interior and exterior, between private space and public space. It cannot be that our build envi-ronment becomes a mix of bits and atoms and that our home-environment remains the - analogue - private refuge which is/can be completely disconnected. The realisation of the architec-ture which facilitates our housing – and possible dwell-ing - has largely become a digital process as well ; from its first design to the moment a house is delivered and hand-ed over to its inhabitant this is a process guided by CAD-systems, BIM-models, digital databases. This ‘system’ is in its use ‘ended’ the moment the inhabitant takes over: there is hardly any lasting intercon-nection between realisation and inhabitation, between the physical appearance and the ways the housing/home is refined, experienced, adapted. We create architecture out of a natural, analogue environ-ment, with the aim to shape

social space; we see architec-ture, in the words of Peter Eisenman, as the result of a process, not as the record of a process. Architecture on hous-ing is by many considered a restraint, a reduction of free-dom. Together with the way much housing-supply is struc-tured, i.e. as a market-driven process instead of a demand-driven process, we have, since decades, a housing which is almost never the right answer to the ever changing ques-tions . To extrapolate; our means to dwell, i.e. to be at peace in one place - according to Heideggger - , is restricted by the ways in which its phys-ical pre-condition – the archi-tecture/house – is created. There is no integrated vision, system, ontology on housing that focuses on personalised, adaptable, connected environ-ments, determined by its in-habitant. The question raised at Coun-cil’s Home-Sense is whether the IoT can provide, facilitate, a better synthesis of bits and atoms, of build structure and embedded/added elements; of action and reaction, of data and information. Home - or better dwelling - is not about technology: but ‘modern tech-nology can work to bring human perception into an

accord with the material envi-ronment’. (Elliot, 2011, p.56) All parties involved in the building of our houses will – have to – create a paradigm-shift; on average we build a house for 70 years, we inhabit and change location every 7 years. Architecture and tech-nology should facilitate our dwelling; not by building houses as restraint but by building connective, more contemporary adaptable struc-tures focused on personal freedom. 1/ Weiser, M., & Brown, J. S. (1996). The Coming Age of Calm Technology. (P. J. Den-ning & R. M. Metcalfe, Eds.)Xerox PARC Retrieved July, 8(July), 2007. Citeseer. doi:10.1145/633292.633457 2/ http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/Accenture-Outlook-Toasters-refrigerators-Internet-of-things.pdf 3/ B. Elliot, Benjamin for Architects, 2011 More information available at http://www.v2.nl/events/one-day-conference-the-internet-of-things

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10th May 2012 the special edition of the IoT comic book was launched in Aalborg at the Future Internet Assembly. So what is new compared to the original? We added 3 more interviews, 5 more illus-trations from 3 new Internet of Things projects (IoT-A, OUT-SMART and SmartSantan-der), each has several new concepts attached – digging into the Internet of Things a little deeper. We updated the QR codes with new material from the web and we added

some more information about several flag ship European initiatives as well as Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Megan Richards also from the com-mission have gotten her own spotlight. Apart from that we made a major upgrade from the penny comic book paper to the premium glossy style of

the special editions.  And we also give you now a clear message using the crea-tive commons on how to use

and share the internet of things comic book. We hope you will enjoy this version as much, if not more, as the last one. And please keep it up – read, share, post to spread the message of the internet of things. Contact Information: Mirko Presser Email: mirko.presser@alexandra.dk Online copy available at: http://www.e-pages.dk/alexandra/14/

IoT-I : Launch of the IoT Comic Book special edition by Mirko Presser

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Internet of Things Initiative

On Thursday, June 18th 2012, the joint project workshop “IoT Everything Linked: From the Sensors to the Cloud” was held in Venice, Italy. Collocated tith this year’s IOT Week, the work-shop featured contributions from several European RTD projects hat are focusing on solving various research chal-lenges related to the Internet of Things. The PLANET and SmartSantander projects pre-sented their pilot applications

and the associated deployment issues. The members of the OpenIOT project presented their approach to create an innovative open architecture for wireless sensor networks and the members of the GAM-BAS project presented their preliminary system architec-ture to enable adaptive data acquisition in a privacy pre-serving manner. The work-shop clearly showed the com-monalities and differences between the approaches taken by the pro-

jects and the intense discus-sions with the audience high-lighted interesting possibilities for further collaboration. More information is available at http://www.gambas-ict.eu/dissemination/iot-week-2012 Contact Information: Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón (PLANET and GAMBAS Project Coordinator) Email: pjmarron@uni-due.de Web: www.gambas-ict.eu / www.planet-ict.eu

IoT everything linked… (report from IOT Week) by Marcus Handte

The ELLIOT project aims to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) experiential platform where users/citizens are di-rectly involved in co-creating, exploring and experimenting new ideas, concepts and tech-nological artefacts related to IoT applications and services. ELLIOT will allow studying the potential impact of IoT and the Future Internet in the context of the Open User Cen-tered Innovation paradigm and of the Living Lab approach. The demo provided at the IoT Week will show the process of

the user experience under-standing using IoT device of the IoT service based in the San Raffaele Hospital Living Lab use-case, where a vending machine equipped with cam-era and microphone interacts with the food/drink consumers suggesting the healthier choice for them. The system interacts with people having a fidelity card (usually members of the hospital) and occasional customers. Age and gender recognition, people count from the camera as well as data in the card will provide

the system with the infor-mation necessary for provid-ing better suggestion to the user. The ELLIOT system monitors the user choices and reactions in approaching and using the machine, and pro-vides a feedback to the service designer to improve the user experience. Contact Information: Gabriella Monteleone, Polymedia Email: gabriella.monteleone @polymedia.it Web: www.elliot-project.eu

ELLIOT Demonstration (report from the IoT week) by Gabriella Monteleone

IoT and IERC News

iCore project demonstration at FuNeMS 2012 – Berlin (Germany) iCore presented an early prototype of its initial research findings at the Future Mobile Summit event in Berlin between the 4th and the 6th July 2012 and won the "Runner-Up Demonstration Stand" award. The demonstration showed a working implementation of how IoT and cognitive technologies can be used to empower ICT applications in a Smart Home environment. Namely it showed what can be achieved virtualising sensing and actuating objects (iCore concept of Virtual Object), how VOs can be enriched with service logic (iCore concept of Composite Virtual Object) and used in a personalised way fitting the user context. Moreover, the demo showed how the use of cognitive technologies supports the user in the selection of the most appropriate objects to fit the application requirements, reusing as necessary objects outside the purpose for which they were originally deployed

RFID in Europe is a network and platform supporting the adoption of RFID and RFID related

One of the Probe-IT project’s objectives is to work on open testing environment to vali-date Internet-of-Things imple-mentations During the IoT week, the project presented a

demonstrator focusing on 6LoWPAN testing and show-ing how to use an open & standardised methodology for a range of tests on IoT build-ing blocks. The specific case

being presented features the baseline for running conform-ance tests on 6LoWPAN IPv6 adaptation layer using TTCN-3 notation. http://www.probe-it.eu/?page_id=656

PROBE-IT Demonstration (report from the IoT week) by Philippe Cousin

July 30th—2nd August: SecIoT’12 “Workshop on the Security of IoT” , Munich, Germany September 11th-14th IEEE iThings’12, Besancon, France, http://ithings.univ-fcompte.fr

October 24th-26th IOT 2012, Wuxi, China , www.iot2012.org

November 7th-9th, IT IS-2012, Dolenjske Toplice, Slovenia, http://itis2012.fis.unm.si 12th-13th, 4th Annual IoT Europe, www.iotconference.eu, Brussels, Belgium 26th-29th, Living Bits and Things’12 and 3rd IoT International Forum, Bled, Slovenia

IoT Events

The  “European  Research Cluster  on  the  Internet  of Things‐IERC"  was  estab‐lished  by  the  DG  Infor‐ma on Society and Media, as  part  of  Europe’s  ambi‐on  to  shape  a  future  In‐

ternet  of  Things  for  its businesses and ci zens.   IERC Newsle er Editor: IoT‐I, Dr Francois D. Carrez (University  of  Surrey,  UK) f.carrez@surrey.ac.uk 

ABOUT IERC  IoT European Research Cluster  The  aim  of  European  Research  Cluster  on  the  Internet  of Things is to address the large poten al for IoT‐based capabili‐es in Europe and to coordinate the convergence of ongoing 

ac vi es.  European Dimension  IoT  has  the  poten al  to  enhance  Europe's  compe veness and  is an  important driver  for  the development of an  infor‐ma on based economy and society. A wide range of research and applica on projects in Europe have been set up in differ‐ent applica on fields. Communica on between these projects is an essen al requirement for a compe ve industry and for a  secure,  safe  and  privacy  preserving  deployment  of  IoT  in Europe.  Global Dimension  IERC will  facilitate  the knowledge  sharing at  the global  level and will encourage and exchange best prac ce and new busi‐ness models that are emerging in different parts of the world. In this way, measures accompanying research and innova on efforts are considered to assess the impact of the Internet of Things at global and  industrial  level, as well as at the organi‐sa onal level.  

technologies (e.g. bar code, NFC, RTLS, WSN, IoT, etc..) and applications throughout Europe. It is a not-for-profit organization created from the EC RFID Thematic network project - RACE which concluded 29th February 2012. With +300 members our organization continues to grow daily with membership open to anyone or any organization with an address in Europe. RFID in Europe mem-bership is for free. Wider international involvement, connections and cooperation are also encour-aged through RFID in Europe's social media. RFID in Europe has established activities such as working groups, organized surveys, created publications, workshops and ogranised an international conference all in its first 3 months. For more information please consult the following links.

http://www.rfidineurope.eu/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3848825&trk=hb_side_g

Summer School on “Open Innovation and User experience Design & Assessment”, Does your organisation have the UX factor? The ELLIOT project (www.elliot-project.eu) is proud to announce that it is supporting the first Summer School on “Open Innovation and User experience Design & Assessment” which will take place on 10th -14th September 2012 at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. The Summer School is designed to be a full immersive, interactive experience and the number of participants is limited to 50 participants on a first come, first served basis. The Summer School program is available at: http://www.ami-communities.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d828767/UX_Design_Summer_School_2012.pdf Online Registration is open.